Christe
Christe was last recorded in 1985, when 7 babies were given it; 331 Americans have been recorded with it between 1951 and 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Christe by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Christe?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,512, in 1985; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 1974, the peak
Christe peaked in 1974, when 25 girls were given it, #2,845 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 7 | #8,512 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,912 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,239 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,800 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,278 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,143 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,030 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 10 | #5,959 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,559 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,657 | 12.3 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 25 | #2,845 | 17.0 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,806 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,163 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,585 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,895 | 8.6 |
| 1969 | 13 | #3,982 | 7.7 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,474 | 9.1 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,084 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,906 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,680 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,267 | 8.4 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,756 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,927 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,379 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,500 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,657 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,574 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,258 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,521 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,432 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,788 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,521 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Christe a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Christe has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Christe: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Christe, and how old are they?
An estimated 298 Americans named Christe and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 50 and 62. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 415 people named Christe (388 women and girls, 27 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 308 born in the U.S. The Census count is 35% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Christe rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 203,464 babies since 1880, Christe is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 65 babies recorded by SSA was a Christe (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Christe
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Christe and names like it
- Compare Christe and ChristyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sChriste peaked in 1974.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Christe since 1910.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Christe.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Christe alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.